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RULE OF 1854. 


‘‘ Resolved, That each State Society shall have the full 
right and power to regulate the admission of members, both as 
to qualifications of the members and the terms of admission; 
provided, that admission be confined to the male descendants 
of original members, or of those who are now members, (in- 
cluding collateral branches, as contemplated by the original 
constitution); or to the male descendants of such officers of 
the army or navy as may have been entitled to admission, but 
who failed to avail themselves thereof within the time limited 
by the constitution; or to the male descendants of such 
officers of the army or navy of the revolution as may have 
resigned with honor, or left the service with reputation; or to 
the male collateral relative of any officer who died in service 
without leaving issue.’’ 


[PRIS RE 


BY-LAWS 


FEBRUARY 23, 1903 


ARTICLE I. 
OFFICERS, COMMITTEES AND MEETINGS. 
Officers. 


SECTION I. The Officers of the Society shall consist of a Presi- 
dent, a Vice-President, a Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, a Treasurer, 
an Assistant Treasurer, anda Chaplain, who shall constitute a Stand- 
ing Committee. 


Election and Term of Officers. 


SECTION 2. The Officers shall be chosen by ballot at the annual 
meeting, on the Twenty Second of February of each year, and shall 
hold office for the term of one year, or until their successors are chosen. 


Duties of Officers. 


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SECTION 3. The President, or in his absence, the Vice-President, 
shall preside at all meetings of the Society and of the Standing Com- 
mittee. af 

The Secretary shall keep and have charge ef all the records and 
papers of the Society and of the Standing Committee. He shall call 
all meetings of the Society and Standing Committee, by mailing notice 
to each member within a reasonable time of the meetings of the same. 
The Assistant Secretary shall assist the Secretary in his duties and act 
in his absence or disability. 

The Treasurer shall have charge of the funds and property of the 
Society with power, on the approval of the Standing Committee, to in- 
vest and reinvest the funds and to disburse the income thereof. He 
shall give bond to the President for the faithful discharge of his trust, 
which bond must be approved by the Standing Committee. At the 
annual meeting of the Society the President shall appoint two members 
to audit the accounts of the Treasurer, and to verify the securities in his 
charge. The Assistant Treasurer shall assist the Treasurer in his 
duties and act in his absence or disability. 

The Chaplain shall be an ordained clergyman of a Christian church 
and shall perform all religious functions connected with the Society. 


Duties of Standing Committee. 


SECTION 4. The Standing Committee shall have charge of the 
welfare and general concerns of the Society, as wellas all other matters 
committed to them by it. They shall hold meetings at such times as 
they shall determine, but at least once a year. They shall consider all 
applications for admission to the Society and recommend such appli- 
cants as they deem to be entitled and worthy. They shall keep a record 
of their proceedings, which shall be open to inspection by any member 
of the Society, and shall be read to the Society at its next following 
meeting. The assent of a majority of the members of the Standing 
Committee shall be necessary for any of its acts. Special meetings of 
the Committee may be called at any time by the direction of. the Presi- 
dent, and shall be called upon the request, in writing, of three mem- 
bers thereof. 


Meetings. 


SECTION 5. The annual meeting of the Society shall be on the 
Twenty Second of February of each year, to be held in such place in 
the State as may be determined upon by the Standing Communittee. 
Special meetings may be called at any time, by direction of the Presi- 
dent, and such meetings shall be called upon the request, in writing, 
of ten members, stating the object of the meeting. 


Quorum. 


SECTION 6. Seven members shall constitute a quorum of the 
Society. 


Order of Business. 
SECTION 7. The order of business shall be as follows: 


(1) Prayer, Roll Call and Reading of the Original Institution 
of the Order. 


(2) Reading of the Minutes of the last meetings of the Society 
and of the Standing Committee. 


(3) Election of Members. 
(4) Report of Officers and Committees. 
(5) Unfinished and New Business. 


(6) Nomination and Election of Officers and Delegates to the 
General Society. 


(7) Adjournment. 


ARTICLE II. 
MEMBERSHIP. 
Applheations. 


SECTION r. All applications for admission shall be in writing to 
the Standing Committee, who shall consider and report upon the same 
to the Society at its annual meeting. 


Lligibility. 

SECTION 2. No person shall be eligible to membership who shall 
be under twenty-one years of age. Every applicant to be eligible 
must have the qualifications stated in the Institution of the Society, or 
under the Rule’of 1854 adopted by the General Society. Among des- 
cendants of original members or others who shall be eligible, this 
Society reserves the absolute right to choose such one as seems to it 


best fitted to promote the ends of the Society, but it will ordinarily be 
guided by the following principles : 


I. The succession shall descend in the eldest male line so long as 
it continues unbroken. 


II. If the eldest male line fails, the next male line shall be taken. 


III. In case of the failure of the male line, the line which des- 
cended the greatest number of generations from the original member 
before a failure of males, shall ordinarily be taken. 


IV. ‘The claims of descendants through female lines shall be deter- 
mined by the same rules of primogeniture as in case of claims through 
the male line, so far as applicable. 


V. Awaiver by any person shall be regarded only as the renuncia- 
tion of a claim, not as the transfer of a right. 


VI. No waiver, express or implied, shall be considered as affect- 
ing the rights of a minor son,—except for special reasons satisfactory 
to the Society. 


VII. Where for any reason the Society deviates from the strict 
rules in electing a member, it shall not be considered as changing per- 
manently the order of succession, but upon the death of such member, 
the old order may be restored. 


/ VIII. As the Society for the support of the principles to which it 
is. pledged may justly require its membership to be kept full, it may 
upon satisfactory evidence that an eligible person has had knowledge 
of his claim and neglected to apply within a reasonable time,—treat it 
as a waiver of the claim. Ifa vacancy has existed for many years, the 
Society may admit any descendant of the original member at its dis- 
cretion. 


Llection to Membership. 
SECTION 3. Applicants whose cases have been favorably reported 


upon by the Standing Committee, may be elected to membership in 
the Society at-its annual meeting by ballot. 


Entrance Fees. 


SECTION 4. The amount to be contributed to the permanent fund 
of the Society, before an applicant can become a member thereof, shall 
be as follows: 

For a membership endowed in perpetuity by an applicant whose 
propositus was an original member of the Society or who ‘‘Died in the 
Service,’?’ One Hundred and Fifty Dollars; by an applicant whose pro- 
positus comes under the “Rule of 1854,’? Two Hundred and Fifty 
Dollars. 

For a life membership by an applicant whose propositus was an 
original member of the Society or who ‘‘Died in the Service,’’ Fifty 
Dollars; by an applicant whose propositus comes under the ‘‘Rule of 
1854,’? One Hundred Dollars. 

The payments, however, on life membership, are to be credited to- 
ward an endowed membership, the cost of which is to be debited 
against the membership. 

All life and endowed membership fees, as well as donations, which 
shall be paid the Society, shall remain forever to the use of the Society 
as a permanent fund, the income only of which may be expended. 


FHlonorary Members. 


SECTION 5. The admission of honorary members, for life only, 
shall be confined to those who shall be eminent lineal descendants or 
representatives of those who were distinguished by high military or 
civil virtues and services in the Revolutionary War. An honorary 
member has no title to any portion of the funds of the Society, and no 
one shall be admitted to honorary membership, except upon the re- 
commendation of the Standing Committee. 


Declaration. 


SECTION 6. Members of this Society shall subscribe to the follow- 
ing declaration : 


NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 


Djmstenebatustteeeck im acpn sensi (nonce sco iol «<== serine et ener re Oren OM GOO May Ck Inet tant 
Chresctan 2) Ae ee. Cay SRS REeeR | 8 an A and having had the honor 
to be admitted to membership in the North Carolina Society of the 
Cincinnati, I do hereby most solemnly promise and engage that I will 
_ be guided and governed by the rules of said Society, which may have 
been or may hereafter be established, agreeably to the Institution as 
signed by the original members. 


In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and pledge my 
sacred honor. 


Seal. 


SECTION 7. The Society shall have a Seal, two inches in diameter, 
and which shall comprise thereon the insignia of the Order, viz., An 
eagle displayed, bearing on its breast the obverse of the medal of the 
Society with the motto, Omnia religuit servare rempublicam, sur- 
rounding the same; above, thirteen stars in a semicircle; beneath, ona 
scroll, the motto of the Order, Asto perpetua,; around the whole, 
the legend, North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, Instituted 
MDCCLXXXIII. The Secretary shall be the custodian of the Seal. 


% Diploma. 


SECTION 8. Every member, upon his admission to the Society, 
shall be entitled to receive a diploma to be signed by the President of 
the Society and countersigned by the Secretary, for which diploma he 
shall pay the Treasurer the sum of Five Dollars. The fee thus paid, 
shall be for the use of the Society and be considered a part of the 
revenue for the current year. The form of the diploma shall be as 
follows: 


BAG SUC) Ci letd arte eee 0 cs epanaty Usnd ahdndeten spe ear tntess teat pe nest wagon 
isa (or an Honorary) Member of the Society of the CINCINNATI, 
instituted by the officers of the American Army atthe Period of its 
Dissolution, as well to commemorate the great event which gave Inde- 
pendence to NORTH AMERICA, as for the laudable purpose of incul- 
cating the duty of laying down in Peace, Arms assumed for public 
Defence, and of uniting in Acts of brotherly Affection and Bonds of 
perpetual Friendship, the Members constituting the same. 

In Testimony whereof, I, the President of the North Carolina 
Society of the Cincinnati, have hereunto set my Hand and the Seal of 
the said Society, at Raleigh, in the State of North Carolina, this Twenty 
Second Day of February in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine 


Goes Pee 2 <-- 220-222-2222 2 and in the One Hundred and....---...........-.- 
Year of the Independence of the United States. 
By order, 
SHAL,. 
1 Sy oy eae Secretary. President. 
/ Insignia. 


SECTION 9. The Order of the Society shall be worn at all the 
meetings by the members, who may obtain it through the Treasurer. 


Amendments. 


SECTION Io. These By-Laws may be altered or amended at any 
meeting of the Society, the call for which shall state the substance of 
the alterations or amendments proposed. 


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